Meat and Fish

It is brought down that we don't mix meat and fish as it is a health danger. The sources don't bring any spiritual detriments, only the physical.

My question is, if this combination is hazardous to ones physical health it should also affect non-Jews as well and thereby this knowledge be public.

Why is this knowledge not known in the secular world or is this combination not dangerous and was only a medieval thought?

Tags: Combination, Danger, Fish, Kosher, Meat, Torah

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Permalink Reply by Aryeh Shore on June 2, 2011 at 6:48pm

 

Mesora as a technical term generally refers to mesoretic text of the torah, the mesoret.

I presume the writer is referring to the oral law as discussed in the Talmud.  For reasons that are not clear, the Oral and Written law as summarized in the Shulchan Aruch has become the authoritive summary of the halacha for all Jews. (After a hundred years of fierce debate.)  Now people who come up with things not in the Shulchan Aruch or wish to hold like the minority opinion in the Shulchan Aruch are people making Chumras.  Since many of the technological inovations we use today are from after the time of the Shulchan Aruch, anything we add in their regard is a chumra, i.e., outlawing the use of light bulbs or electricity on Shabbat in general is a chumra.  In the case of sakanah, this is a debate from the time of the Rambam and Tosephot when they realized the medicine and folklore of the babylonian talmud could really be considered superstition (they were a very superstitious lot) and therefore do not have the force of the halacha.  This debate has little to do with modern chumras which is a matter of making assur that which our sainted forefathers and those before them held to be permitted. 

Permalink Reply by Ron Balofsky on June 2, 2011 at 7:57pm
what do you mean shabbos is different?

Evan Gary Moss said:

Thank you Razel! I think you gave an excellent insight.

 

As far as Shabbos is concerned... Shabbos is different...

Permalink Reply by Ron Balofsky on June 2, 2011 at 7:58pm
Where did I mention Mesora (sorry the thread is getting very jumbled)

Evan Gary Moss said:
Again, Ron, what did you mean by mesora?
Permalink Reply by Evan Gary Moss on June 2, 2011 at 8:06pm

On Shabbos we can say we are not as concerned with the natural process of digestion.

 

So to say that in general eating meat with fish is unhealthy for health reasons...
maybe on Shabbos we are not as concerned.

 

Although we don't eat them mamosh together, perhaps the health issue is still illuminated.

 

The intention of not eating meat and fish together is a health guideline.

 

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